DIRECTIONS FOR 2004 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR Wednesday, June 9 Mileage
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Right out of Guest House Inn onto Hwy 84 .2
Right onto I-75 North 33
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Right at the top of Exit 49 at Lenox
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Left at top of Exit
Right onto Old Union Road 1
Left onto Rentz Bridge Rd 0.9
Left into field drive at house
Everett Franks Farm, Cook County
Right out of field drive 0.9
Right onto Old Union Road 1
Left onto Lenox Brookfield Rd. through Lenox
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Through 1 stop light
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Cross railroad tracks 1.4
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Left onto paved road after bulk curing barns 2
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Left onto CR 363 at Berrien Co. line 4.1
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Right onto Hwy 125 6
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Left onto McMillan Rd 2
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Left onto dirt road at Ebenezer Baptist Church sign 0.6
Left into field at upper end of field
Larry McMillan/Bruce Dillard Farm, Berrien County
Left out of field 1.2
Right onto Parker Chapel Road
Left onto Ebenezer Church Road 0.9
Right onto Whitley Road at stop sign 0.8
Left into field across from Grady McGee Road
Follow field road around to right for plots
Tim and Steve McMillan Farm, Berrien County
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Left out of the field onto Whitley Rd 4.1
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Left at stop sign onto Hwy 82 at Brookfield 0.4
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Right onto Chula-Brookfield Rd. 3.3
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Left onto Ferry Lake Rd 2.2
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Right onto Harold Tyson Rd.(dirt road) 0.9
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Left onto Goat Road (dirt road) to Bowen Farm 0.8
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Right into Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station(CPES) Wednesday, June 9 (continued) Mileage
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Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station
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Right out of Bowen Farm 1.3
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Right on Hwy 319 (no traffic assistance provided here to lunch) 0.3
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Left onto Sutton Rd. 0.8
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Left onto Mount Olive Church Rd. 0.8
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Left onto Old Ocilla at stop sign 2.1
Right onto 20th Street at second traffic light 0.9
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Cross Tift Avenue at the traffic light 1.0
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Right at the traffic light onto GA Hwy 41 0.6
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Left on RDC Road
Left into RDC
- SPONSORED LUNCH- Rural Development Center
Courtesy of the Georgia Tobacco Commission
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Left out of RDC drive onto RDC Rd. 0.1
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Cross RR tracks
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Right onto Moore Highway
Left onto Zion Hope Rd at stop sign
Right onto Carpenter Rd (dirt)
Left into Black Shank Farm
Black Shank Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Right out of farm on Carpenter Road
Cross Zion Hope Rd. at stop sign
Cross Whiddon Mill Road at stop light
Cross at stop light at 2nd Street
Left at stop light onto Hwy 82 East
Continue East on Hwy 82 through Tifton and look for the tour to recollect
at the Tift County Fairgounds,.
Continue through Brookfield and Enigma
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Right onto Robert Davis Rd (dirt road east of Dixon Cotton Gin) 2.4
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Left into field at bulk barns.
Follow field road to far side of tobacco field , circle pivot
Joel Dixon Farm, Berrien County
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Left out of field road at entrance 0.8
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Left onto J. E. McMillan Rd 1.3
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Left onto CR 406 2.2
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Left onto S. Main Street Wednesday, June 9 (continued) Mileage
Directions (* - indicates traffic assistance needed) 0.5
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Right onto E. Brunswick 4.8
Left onto Giddens Rd. (just beyond Rowe Towne Church Road) 6.5
Cross RR 2.0
Left onto GA Hwy 76 1.7
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Right onto Hwy 135 at stop sign 0.3
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Left into field drive and through tobacco at irrigation middle
James and Randall Griner Farm, Berrien County
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Right onto GA Hwy 135 8.0
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Left onto Hwy 82 West 0.3
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Right onto Hwy 90 at airplane
Right onto Bridgetown Rd 8.3
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Cross Hwy 158 onto Younge Fussell Rd 3.2
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Left onto Aubrey Paulk Road 0.5
Plot is beyond mobile home on left
Joey Anderson Farm, Coffee County
continue on Aubrey Paulk Road to stop sign at Hwy 149 0.25
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Left onto Hwy 149 to stop sign 3.0
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Left onto Hwy 158 6.0
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Follow Hwy 158 to stop light at Hwy 441 and through Douglas on 158 0.8
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E. Shirley St 0.3
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S. College 0.2
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Peterson 5.1
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Madison 0.3
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Gaskins Rd 0.1
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McDonald Road 0.9
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Bowens Mill Road 10.4
Right onto Hwy 64 at Wilsonville
Right on Chester Williams Rd,
Continue to left on Chester Williams Road to plot on Right
Nathan Henderson Farm, Coffee County
Return to Hwy 158
Right at stop sign to stop sign at Hwy 82.
Left onto Hwy 82
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Hwy 82 West to Holiday Inn, Waycross
(Mixon's pond on left in curve at Waresboro)
Travel through Waycross (traffic lights)
Register - Holiday Inn, Waycross Hwy 82 X US 1 7:30
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Evening meal at pond on the Mixon Farm in sight of Hwy 82 at Waresboro. Thursday, June 10 Mileage
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Left out of Holiday Inn onto Hwy 82 West and through Waycross 11.0
Left into Mixon Farm field road opposite entrance to pond house
Mixon Farm, Ware County
Actigard plot and Sucker Control Plot behind barns.
Right out of farm
Left at light onto Hwy 82
Right onto Hwy 158
Right onto Telmore - Dixie Union Road
Crawford plot on the left
Eddie Crawford Farm, Ware County
Left from Crawford farm onto Telmore - Dixie Union Road 3.0
Left at Stop Sign onto US 1 0.25
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Left onto Dave Bennett Rd.(first dirt road north of Dixie Union) 0.3
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Right onto dirt road before brick house on right 0.2
Left into field
A. J. Bennett Farm, Ware County
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Right out of field road 0.2
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Left onto Dave Bennett Rd. 1.0
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Left at stop sign onto US 1 to Alma City limits 18
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Left onto Floyd Street across the street from the American Legion at
traffic light in Alma to M.J. Eason on left 0.2
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Left at M. J. Eason onto Market Street 3.2
Right at plot sign into blueberry field across from Alma Sunbelt
Plots on left at far side of field
David Lee Farm, Bacon County
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Left out drive for David Lee Plot onto GA 64 3.3
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Right on Sixteenth Street/Hwy 32
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Cross US 1 traveling east 2
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Turn Left onto first paved road after creek bridge ( Bennet Still Rd) 2.2
Plot on left
Alyson and Ashley Rewis Demonstration, Bacon County
Plot on Left at Demonstration Sign
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Right at stop sign
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Right at stop sign 3.5
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Right at stop light onto US 1 3.0
Right into HillBilly's Restaurant Thursday, June 10 (continued) Mileage
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SPONSORED LUNCH
- lunch prepared by the Bacon County Farm Bureau Women's Committee
Courtesy of: Alma Exchange Bank and First National Bank
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Left out of HillBilly's drive 3.0
Left at stop light onto Hwy 32 6.4
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Left onto Hwy 203 0.3
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Left following Hwy 203 10.3
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Left at stop sign onto GA Hwy 15 3.7
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Right onto Jeffrey Turner Road (dirt), 1
plot on left
Jeffrey Turner Farm, Appling County 1.0
Right at stop sign onto GA Hwy 15 12.1
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Cross 441 in Baxley
Right onto Hwy 144 9
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Right into tobacco field just before large power lines cross 144 and
beyond Oscar Tippens Rd on Left.
Paschol Pearce Farm, Appling County
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Right onto Hwy 144 5.5
When Hwy 144 merges with Hwy 169, Follow Hwy 169 to Mendes 16.0
Straight through Mendes 10.0
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Cross Hwy 280 at the caution light in Bellville 1.5
Right to follow Hwy 169 1.5
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Cross Hwy 129 5
Right onto CR 138 off Hwy 169 2.5
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Left onto Beasley Farm Rd 1
Plot on left behind house. Follow field road to plot.
Del Beasley Farm Plot, Evans County
THIS IS THE END OF THE 2004 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR
HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME !